Visium Industry · Engineering

Staff AI Engineer

CHF 150'000 – 170'000 / year
LAUSANNE
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Description

At Visium, we enable enterprise executives in defining their AI & Data strategy, execute large scale transformations and implement AI across operations, ensuring their organization becomes future-proof. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the most technically complex and high-impact projects from conceptualization over architecture design to production deployment.

Responsibilities

You will:

  • Set direction for a technical team, ensuring architectural excellence and long-term solution maintainability.
  • Lead and mentor junior and senior engineers, raising the technical bar across projects.
  • Stay hands-on with high quality code contributions to data processing, modeling and deployment pipelines while delegating effectively.
  • Partner with clients to translate complex business challenges into clear technical roadmaps and deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Drive adoption of modern ML best practices and state-of-the-art methodology from system design and architecture over modelling to MLOps.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:

  • 6 - 8 years of experience in machine learning, data science, or related fields.
  • Proficiency in Python programming.
  • Expertise in ML/DL libraries and frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch).
  • Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Matplotlib, Seaborn, Power BI, Tableau, D3.js).
  • Deep learning experience (e.g., RNNs, CNNs) and strong knowledge of clustering, regression, and classification methods.
  • Experience in designing, developing, and deploying LLM-based applications, including RAG systems, with a strong understanding of prompt engineering, vector databases, and knowledge retrieval pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments, REST APIs, and microservices.
  • Experience with ML deployment, production pipelines, and scalable architectures on platforms such as AzureML, AWS and GCP.
  • Experience with Data and AI platforms (Databricks, Dataiku, Snowflake).
  • Certifications are a plus.
  • Demonstrated technical and project leadership, with the ability to guide complex initiatives and deliver results.
  • Strong mentorship skills and experience managing or coaching teams to reach their full potential.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, capable of bridging technical and business perspectives.
  • Fluent in English, French is a plus.

Benefits

What we offer

  • A yearly education budget to steep your learning curve
  • A yearly sport budget because a fit body leads to a fit mind
  • A position that enables you to have an impact on 1’000s of people
  • An international, knowledgeable, and passionate team with a strong collaborative mindset
  • Opportunity to join a talented and experienced company with proven traction in its journey
  • An open and transparent culture